18th March 2020

Our commitment to our customers during COVID-19

A message from our Director, Ian Gabbie:

In light of the current outbreak of COVID-19 in the UK and its impact on the global community, Digital Messaging Company (DMC) is making appropriate plans to be continually updated in accordance with government guidelines.

Our services

Until further notice, DMC is business as usual in all our services including content creation, content management, support, as well as digital display supply, installation and on site support.  When working on site, we are taking all the necessary precautions regarding hand hygiene, proximity, and cleanliness of work area.

We are starting the transition to remote working as restriction of movement is increased. The team will remain contactable through the usual communication modes of email and the office contact number 020 3393 1470 during our office hours of 8:30 – 17:30, Monday through Friday.

We understand the additional pressures you are under at this time, and we are here to assist in any way we can.  Please do not hesitate to ask.

DMC wishes you, your colleagues and your families wellness and safety during these challenging times.

15th May 2018

What have we been up to?

April 2018

We’ve been so busy we forgot to blog. Ok, we didn’t exactly forget. But I promise you it wasn’t my fault. I wanted to blog, I really did. I had topics to blog about and everything. But someone tied me up with a bunch of HDMI cables and left me the stock room and I’ve only just broken free. If you’d just broken free after months of imprisonment in a windowless back room surrounded by media players and stationery supplies, what would be your first course of action? It would probably be the obvious course of action. Well, that’s the course of action I’ve taken. I’ve gotten straight back on the internet to start writing about digital signage.

Here’s a little run down of the fun digital signage projects we’ve developed over the last little while. Let’s get you up to speed.Read More

15th May 2017

LED vs OLED vs QLED – Which one should you be using?

Buying digital signage should be easy, but it’s not. That’s kind of why we exist, if I’m honest. We make it easier for you because we understand your apprehension. You’re over here trying to choose a simple screen and you’re confronted with all these LED-based buzzwords and it just gets more and more confusing, until you find yourself ugly crying on the floor, tangled up in HDMI cables  and wishing the digital signage fairy would just buzz along and make the decision for you.

Well, today’s your lucky day. The digital signage fairy is here to buzz her way through buzzwords and marketing jargon and give you some real talk about what kind of digital displays would be best for your business; LED, OLED or QLED.

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12th April 2017

Should you use System on Chip or a Media Player?

This is the first big decision you need to make once you decide to partake in the digital signage dance off. Popular entries in the digital signage dance off include the menu board mambo and the window display waltz, but perhaps you’re looking to trip the light fantastic with a retail screen rumba? Well, you’ll need to choose between System on Chip and Media Players.

What does this even mean? Well, I’m happy you asked. It really helps me pad out this blog post. Most of the screens we deal with are SoC. That stands for System on Chip, which is great because if you sound it out phonetically it sounds like ‘sock’ and socks are great for dancing especially if you have one of those shiny dance floor dealies. You can really slide along like Tom Cruise in that movie with his underwear… Wait, I’ve disappeared on a tangent. Digital signage, SoC, got ya. I’m back.

As most of our screens are SoC, you might just be thinking, “cool, they know what they’re talking about, they’re Digital Messaging Company. I’ll just go with SoC and get on with my digital dancing”. This would be foolish as you need to know if SoC is actually the right choice for you. Here’s what you need to consider:

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17th February 2017

Ultra-D glasses-free 3D technology

3D glasses are a problem if you usually wear prescription lenses. After finally becoming secure enough in your appearance to withstand the hackneyed taunts of “FOUR EYES” coming from the wise guys down the back of the cinema, you then have slide on yet ANOTHER pair of glasses over the top of your regular pair just to enjoy the extraordinarly pointy 3D effects in whatever seminal piece of 3D cinema you’ve chosen to view. Not even a special edition refrigerated Fonzie is cool enough to withstand the taunts of “SIX EYES” that will now be screamed at you by the public at large.

It’s even worse if you’re a big U2 fan with a Bono complex causing you to need to wear sunglasses inside when faced with a stressful situation. Suddenly you’re an “EIGHT EYES” and you have as much social currency as a spider. One of those big hairy ones, with thick legs that dart out of the corners you thought were safe while you’re precariously holding a stack of antique crystal. The ones that run directly at you while fear freezes you to the ground and your only chance of salvation comes from screaming at an inhumanly high pitch in the hope that a dog runs in to save you. We’ve all seen one of those spiders. It’s a scary beast.

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6th November 2016

Video Walls In Models Own Flagship Boxstore

We’ve been working on a brilliant, shiny and somewhat colourful project: creating two gorgeous video walls in Models Own flagship store. The Models Own makeup brand has recently opened their first “boxstore” in Westfield Stratford City in London and we’ve helped to make things exciting and technologically innovative by installing ten 65″ LG screens. The screens run down both sides of the store, in two rows of five, giving visitors the feeling of being surrounded by on screen entertainment.

As colour is so clearly important for this project, LG displays were the perfect choice; each screen has a colour depth of 1.06 billion colours. Yes, that’s right, 1.06 billion. Whether they’re showcasing makeup artists working on models, highlighting new products in the range or broadcasting live demonstrations in store, we’re confident our screens will be able to colour match makeup shades and hues perfectly.

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19th September 2016

Our Window Display Kiosk

Window signage can be tricky. Even once you’ve sorted your content and you’ve purchased the perfect screens you need to think about installation. All is fine if you’ve got a big wall in your window, it’s easy enough to attach your screen to that and away you go.

But how many people actually have a big wall in their window? Some people are nutty enough to actually use their windows to let the light in. And if that’s the case, we still need something to attach your display to, as despite our best efforts the self-contained-levitating-screen isn’t quite ready yet… our best efforts being a daily prayer at the digital signage shrine and a quick dance of devotion. Well, it hasn’t worked yet, so we needed to develop a new fix.

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7th September 2016

Welcome To Our New Website

Welcome to our new website. Our new digital digs. Our old website needed some digital signage va-va-voom so we’ve taken a bit of polish, a smattering of unicorn tale and a dab of glitz to it and generally made it a pretty exciting place to hang out. Well, we think so, anyway.

We’ve updated our sectors. We’ve added in some exciting case studies. We’ve taken some beautiful new photos of signage and we’re still trying to find a spot for a few more because we’ve got so many digital shenanigans to share with you. Here are a few things we’ll be telling you about in the next few weeks:

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25th June 2015

Mirror and Transparent Displays Are Here

The other day a little piece of futuristic magic marvelled its way into our lives. We were just sitting around, casually lapping up all that is digital signage when we were hit with the wonderful news that magic mirrors are no longer the stuff of fairytales, they’re coming to a retail space near you. Those lovely technological wizards at Samsung have created a mirror OLED display. Just look at this beauty:

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